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Explaining Gamin’ to the Layman - Casual Style
How to explain:
You want to test your reflexes
and the only way you can
do that at the bus stop is by
swishing Tom the Electrician
around a never-ending wind
farm. The high score gets you
on a leaderboard - which is
also linked to Friendster - so
you can tell Uncle Jim to stuff
it at Great-Grandma’s next
birthday party. It’s a relaxing
way to unwind, helping Tom
escape the Environmentalists.
Issue 57 • July 2014
So why would you want
to do ten levels of zombie
shooting in a frightening
landscape when Tom’s wind
farm looks so peaceful? Even
the Environmentalists have
a smile on their faces!
which is incapable of rendering
a bead of sweat running off
of a rugby player’s ankle,
because a team of 250 couldn’t
have worked on making it.
It’s Too Easy
Just because it’s easy to learn,
doesn’t mean it’s easy to
master. You could spend the
next month just trying to line
up all the kittens in a basket
- but some don’t even have
any level of difficulty to them.
Why the laymen doesn’t get it:
With simpler graphics, surely it
must have simpler gameplay!
There’s no draw to a game
How to explain:
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